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Formulate a Committee
Sometimes it seems you spend half your waking hours in committee
meetings. A committee to determine whether and how to implement an AED
program does not need to be of long duration. Its work can usually be
accomplished in a few months after which it may only meet on a quarterly
basis.
The committee should be as diverse as
possible without becoming too large. There should be someone on it
representing management or administration; someone from the safety
committee or the emergency response team, a member of the medical
profession who works for or is contracted to your organization, employees
or faculty, especially those who may volunteer as EMTs, customers or
guests to your facility and anyone else you can think of who can be
counted on to consider and make rational decisions about the issues.
At this stage, its great if you can have
a company physician serve on the committee but this is rarely possible.
Also, try to get some people on the committee who are either neutral
toward the idea of AEDs or opposed to them completely. These types may
make it seem that you are making no progress but when they have been won
over things will really start to happen. Not everyone in your facility is
going to favor AED programs initially. You might as well determine what
opposition you face at the committee level before making your
facility-wide recommendations.
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